The planet's surface is not as flat as described in Galactic Geographic, and through the thick force field walls, Lucas can see a portion of the orange-yellow rocks surrounding the base.

On this piece of spaceship, which his brother Steven described in his family letter as 'a spaceship-like planet', the magnificent starry sky does not lose half of its color with the rise and fall of the stars, but changes from moment to moment, like a holographic star map in the Wenzhi Planetarium when he was a child, sitting on a moving sofa and looking up at the starry sky above.

At this moment, his attention shifted from the barren surface to the brilliant starry sky above his head, and he couldn't help but be fascinated by this beautiful scenery that he had never seen in his life. There, the giant star Dionysus spews a long tongue of flame, like a prehistoric beast lying in a vacuum, and the planet Calypso, surrounded by billions of colorful meteorites, is like a jewel suspended in an inky ocean.

The night was eternal, the stars were moving, and he only felt his heart surging, and he couldn't help but exhale.

Except for Steven. Taylor is too playful to marry, and Lucas is the only celibate in the family, and for most of his life, he has spent most of his life in the farm, managing all the farm implements and nearly 100 sets of automated machinery, connecting transportation, and handling all the small and trivial things. He managed the entire farm so well that his father, Brandon. Ever since he took over as an adult, Taylor has been able to step away from the business and retire for the rest of his life.

The farm has a bosom wheat field that is several times larger than the entire Wenzhi urban area, breeding, sowing, harvesting, managing, and the rotation of the four seasons, so that Lucas has almost no time to take care of himself. He rarely gets a chance to go out of town, let alone leave Chilian and board a travel company ship to go to the various galaxies of the Alliance. While the other brothers were out with their families calling friends, he was the only one who stayed in the mansion surrounded by a sea of yellow, accompanying his parents under the white walls and green tiles, and taking care of the livelihood on which the whole family depended.

As a result, he had never truly appreciated the starry sky beyond Chirien, and the beauty of Cadmus's night had turned almost all his perceptions upside down, and he suddenly remembered the dream of traveling through the universe in his childhood heart, which was clear even after many years. In that dream, he piloted the spaceship through all the wonders of the world, from the fall of the stars to the birth of stars; In that dream, he felt that he could do anything, and in that dream, he felt that he had everything.

A sudden noise dispelled the illusion in front of him, as if someone was whistling not far away, and Lucas followed the sound to see someone from a tower not far from him waving at him from the window.

Except for the four members of the JIM investigation team who came from the same boat, Lucas obviously didn't know anyone in the base, and he looked at himself with a puzzled face, and the man nodded desperately, looking around from time to time, looking a little sneaky.

He walked over and looked up, only to hear the man shout at him in a low voice, "Come up ......," and then point to the spiral staircase below the tower.

The tower was next to the base's only ship dock, and Lucas reckoned that the man must have seen himself and the investigation team emerge from the carrier, unless he really recognized the wrong person, and the only explanation was that the other party had something to explain to him about Steven.

This was exactly what Lucas wanted, and when he came to Cadmus, his father had instructed him to find out what had happened to Steven, and he had not expected the investigators of the Development Committee to find out what had happened. Because during the two months of bad travel, none of them asked him about Steven's condition, and one of the people in charge often politely comforted him and told him to mourn and change.

On a planet where there is no force field that can not survive even for a second, there are now missing people who have disappeared for more than a year, and the Development Committee has obviously determined Steven's death in advance, and they have sent an investigation team to come, but it is only because the body has not been found.

Lucas had already made up his mind before he set out to find out the truth in every possible way, and after arriving at Cadmus, his thoughts became even stronger, because he couldn't understand why working under such a force field that could be seen at a glance could make a contract colonist disappear into thin air.

Climbing up the stairs to the tower, Lucas noticed that the man who had called him up was still looking around the window, so he didn't speak, but stood by the door and waited.

It took a long time for the man to turn around, he was not good-looking, he was dressed very sloppily, the stubble on his chin was crooked, and he was wearing a pair of glasses, because the lenses were so thick that they didn't look like the fantasy data glasses that swept the whole Union.

"My name is Kevin...... Kevin. Chenald, you must be a Taylor, right? They said that Steven's brother was coming to Cadmus, and I had heard him talk about it before...... It seemed like there were seven, and he was the youngest of them. The man stretched out his hand and smiled, revealing his untidy front teeth.

"Six." Lucas told him after shaking his hand.

"What?" Kevin froze.

"Six brothers, one sister." Lucas corrected.

"Oh...... Sister. Kevin retracted his palm, his eyes looked at Lucas, his eyes looked a little glazed, and then he nodded and said, "Steven seems to have said it, but I forgot, my memory has always been terrible, and that's why I fell into this hellish place, if you know what I mean." He said with a smile.

"I'm the port dispatcher here, a hellish place where the carrier ship only comes once every three months, and they actually need a dispatch...... Kevin began to laugh again, and then he closed his mouth in shame when he saw Lucas's tense face.

"The company is too optimistic about the mining progress here, they have recruited so many miners, and the base has been built for so long but they can't get together a shipload of goods, so I have a very idle job here, and those bureaucrats don't dare to cut this position, it is equivalent to sprinkling salt on the wound of their performance report, if you know what I mean."

Kevin seemed babbling, and Lucas felt the need to remind him.

"Tell me about Steven." He said coldly.

"Yes, yes, that's why I called you up." Kevin seemed to wake up from a trance, glaring at Lucas from behind his thick glasses with a mysterious expression on his face.

"Unlike the bureaucrats who like to fake statements tell you, your brother, Steven, is not missing...... Instead, he became a ghost! Kevin said solemnly.